LoRA (2021) by Microsoft / collaborators

Record 082 · Tooling · 2021

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LoRA

Microsoft / collaborators

“Low-rank adapters that made fine-tuning a local 4090 job instead of a cluster job.”

LoRA (and QLoRA after it) is why people own specialized local models: a 20MB adapter on a frozen 7B. The customization layer.

Opened local specialization of large models.

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  • Low-rank adapters
  • Small trainable footprint
  • Composable adapters

A small adapter, a new behavior.